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accessary

American  
[ak-ses-uh-ree] / ækˈsɛs ə ri /

noun

plural

accessaries
  1. accessory.


accessary British  
/ əkˈsɛsərɪ /

noun

  1. law a less common spelling of accessory

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Other Word Forms

  • accessarily adverb
  • accessariness noun

Example Sentences

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Another popular accessary was face jewelry around the nose and cheekbones.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021

You are directly and peculiarly accessary to a degree of guilt and misery which none but the infinite mind can comprehend.

From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society

I am much indebted to the zeal and discernment of Fort-Adjutant Gualy, who was very accessary to the due execution of my orders.

From The History of the First West India Regiment by Ellis, A. B. (Alfred Burdon)

In Pekin, the shew was but an accessary; every one pursued his business, at the same time that he gratified his curiosity.

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

I, and other English, immediately went in all haste to the king, acquainting him with what had happened, lest, if the Dutch had intended any treachery, he might have suspected us as being accessary.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert